News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726 or Kelly.Thornton@usdoj.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Newton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for embezzling $1.6 million from elderly clients and failing to pay taxes on the embezzled funds.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for a conservation program to benefit the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher, a small, neotropical migrant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who led police officers on a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Johnathan K. Esparza, 27, of Steelville, MO, pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm stemming from a police chase from Illinois into Missouri. Esparza appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for March 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NORMAN WIGGINS, 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 23 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Terrence Patrick Goggin pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge Kareem Carter. The plea was accepted by the Honorable James Donato, U.S. District Judge.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, today applauded House passage of a measure strongly supporting the Global Fund, an American-led health initiative to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Warren Johnson, age 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 3, 2019, by a federal grand jury on charges of failure to appear at the Bureau of Prisons for the commencement of his previously imposed sentence.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: With record low unemployment, USDA finalizes rule to promote work (Washington, D.C., December 4, 2019) – At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced a final rule to move more able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) towards self-sufficiency and into employment. The rule restores the system to what Congress intended: assistance through difficult times, not a way of life.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ill., Dec. 4, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Bill Northey announced USDA has invested $12.8 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve e-Connectivity for more than 1,650 homes in rural Illinois. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the opening of the grant solicitation period for comprehensive funding to tribal communities to support crime prevention, victim services, and coordinated community responses to violence against native women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwarding proceeds to foreign-based perpetrators. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: A Texas apartment developer and a Texas site engineer have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit alleging they violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The suit alleged that they built an eight-building addition and associated rental office at the Seasons Resort ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: A Las Vegas resident pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, theft of government property, and access device fraud, relating to a stolen identity tax fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced that it has awarded more than $376 million in grant funding to enhance state, local and tribal law enforcement operations and reinforce public safety efforts in jurisdictions across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against Navistar Defense LLC. Navistar Defense manufactured armored vehicles for the United States military and is a subsidiary of Navistar International LLC, headquartered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Unitrans International Inc. (Unitrans), a privately held Virginia defense contracting company, has agreed to pay $45 million to resolve criminal obstruction charges and civil False Claims Act allegations relating to the illegal transportation of goods across Iran in connection with a contract to provide material and logistical support to U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced an affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Taiwan, finding that exporters from this country have dumped carbon and alloy steel threaded rod in the United States at a margin of 32.26 percent.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSTON, PA ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dana Railcare – based in Wilmington, Delaware – for confined space hazards after an employee fatality in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The railcar service provider faces $551,226 in proposed penalties.
